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Archives hive mind! Any ideas for remote online transcribing projects which would appeal to a retired archivist who loves palaeography and is coming to an end of their present project? Could be anything C16th-C20th, but I lean towards the earlier material unless it’s a topic I’m interested in.

Interesting. We have researchers who've found black people in our records, but they aren't described as such at all in the records themselves (they've been described like that in other documents, like court papers or newspaper reports).

What can you expect to find at #HistDay25 our celebration of history collections with @senatehouselib.bsky.social? Come along and find out on 4 Nov. Book your free space here www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

A reminder that this is happening THIS Wednesday! #DisHist

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Should you find yourself in the general Peterborough area, I'm giving a talk in aid of the John Clare Cottage appeal on Sat 15 Nov, 3pm
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Cofiwn: World remembers Aberfan disaster Stephen Price Today, people across the world remember one of the greatest tragedies in Welsh history – the 1966 Aberfan disaster – which left a small mining village robbed of an entire generation. On ...

Today, people across the world remember one of the greatest tragedies in Welsh history - the 1966 Aberfan disaster - which left a small mining village robbed of an entire generation

After school club is the key incubator of 90s culture at my child's primary school. Every time I pick him up there's 'Now that's what I call music 1993' on at full volume and a line of at least a dozen girls working on the synchronised dance moves.

Barbican all-dayer for One Battle After Another and now the Divine Comedy. We did have time to pop out for a quick drink at sunset though...

Plague Houses and Pandemics The Great Plague struck Stuart England in 1665.

#FreeEvent on Tues 14 Oct, 2pm: "Plague Houses and Pandemics" talk by Alison Wall, Health Visitor & Researcher.

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Really well expressed Janet, thank you.

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The only place of worship I regularly attend.

If you can, do her homework/home reading with her. Learning by doing (and letting the child teach you a bit) really worked for us.

Plus, kids love explaining stuff to adults, it engages them too.

Her school will have some app games online which will walk you through it, if you can get access.

Hogarth masterpieces restored at Barts Hospital open to public The restoration of the north wing has 'recaptured its beauty and dignity', the project teams says.

The Grade 1 listed North Wing of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London reopens after £9.5 million restoration with 2 William Hogarth masterpiece murals available for the public to see for the first time. 👇
BBC News - Hospital's Hogarth opens to public for first time
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In Britain I don't think it's law, but you'd deffo run afoul of Museums Accreditation and proper ethical practice...

The Blood Brothers.

It's so divorced from the reality of managing volunteers. I'm reluctant to label any policy by a sitting government as performative, but I struggle to see how this works in practice.

(And I love volunteers! And it's probably the least objectionable bit of this whole mess!)

Fantastic #openaccess article 📄 by @dralanagharris.bsky.social & Laura Mitchison in Transactions @royalhistsoc.org on disability, ethics, public history, photography & oral history: Essential read for any of us doing public engagement work on sensitive histories. 🌟

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Statement on recent press discussion about the digitisation of adoption records — Campaign for Records The Chief Archivists in Local Government Group of the Archives and Records Association have put out this statement in response to press discussion on digitisation of adoption records and propose an al...

Yesterday we sent out this briefing to all UK MPs and our press list. It is our response to calls for digitisation of adoption and care records. We believe there is a better - & much needed - solution to make these records more accessible to those that need them. #LongLostFamilies bit.ly/4mBqsxo

Sigh, sorry, 'the role of keeper was a sinecure' it should read.

Hello! Just a note that the City only really gained control of Bethlem/Bethlehem/Bedlam in 1547, and between the end of the Order of St Mary and then it was pretty much a sinecure of the Royal Family. It's confusing, and not helped by the first history which colossally overplays the role of the City

This is sure to be a great evening!

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History curious? You don't need to be in London (or the UK) to attend many Institute of Historical Research seminars, although if you're in Bloomsbury you'll enjoy doing so. Most are hybrid (online/in person). They're free, usually fortnightly and open to the public.

Starting this week:

Still time to see this great exhibition at Lambeth Archives, open until 8pm this evening too

I spend 2/5s of my working days explaining to London-born kids what the City of London is and where it is, so no surprises here.

I think I would have preferred the fully made up references tbh...

Close! It was the Chaplain. Same concepts, I think.

To give you some idea of the Horlicks he made of it, we have a ward called Gresham on site solely because he fantasised that Thomas G had a major role in the history. AI isn't the only thing capable of hallucinating...

At least one archivist on here has found 'false' reference numbers cropping up in enquiries (was it you @jameselder.bsky.social ?).

I'm never quite sure if the 'wrong' stuff that comes my way is from AI hallucinations, or the awful first history of the Hospital.

In my (very old and probably out of date) experience, lack of precision is something you can just about get away with as an undergraduate. It's very exposing at any higher level though.